Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.